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How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by sonature1: 1:22pm On Jan 09
During the Yuletide, the hashtag ‘Igbo village mansions’ trended on social media. The hashtag, which started on Tiktok, was a reaction to a denigrating remark someone made about the Igbo people living in huts in rural communities.

Those travelling to Igboland for Christmas and New Year began to post photos and videos of their houses and other buildings in their communities, while urging people from other parts of the country to also show their own indigenous communities. It quickly spread to X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.

To some, it was a show-off; to others, it was some sort of enlightenment for many who had never travelled to Igboland and never knew that such edifices could be built even in the remotest places.

But there was a reason for that confusion. In Nigeria, the only people who call their ancestral communities ‘village’ are the Igbo people. By calling their hometowns and cities ‘villages’ over the years, Igbo people created a picture of a people who live in thatched huts built with mud. Conversely, other parts of Nigeria use terms like ‘town’ and ‘city’ to describe their own ancestral communities.

For example, growing up I had relatives who lived in places like Zonkwa, Funtua, Mubi, Owo, Ikare, Auchi, Gboko, etc. While talking about their place of residence, they would use words like “town” or “city”, but when talking about home, they would use “village.” Friends from other Igbo towns and cities had the same experience. Imagine the absurdity of hearing indigenes of cities like Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, or Enugu, who live outside Igboland, saying: “I am travelling to my village.”

Unconsciously, the Igbo people internalised ‘village’ to mean “ancestral home” as opposed to “place of residence.” Village is interpreted to be where family members live, where childhood friends can be met, where childhood memories exist, and where the traditions of the people hold sway.

But because of the disconnect between this meaning of ‘village’ and the dictionary meaning, many non-Igbo mistake that expression for something else.

How does the dictionary define ‘village’? Dictionary.com defines a village as “a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.”

Using a hut for illustration, National Geographic explains ‘village’ to children between Grade 5 and Grade 8 or Primary 5 and JS2 this way: “A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a ‘hamlet’ but smaller than a ‘town.’ Some geographers specifically define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants.”

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary says that “a village consists of a group of houses, together with other buildings such as a church or school, in a country area.” Note that “country area” means rural area. Similarly, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines it as “a very small town in the countryside.”

Two features run through all the definitions. The first is that a village is “small.” The second is that it is in a rural area. Being rural connotes lacking in modernity and facilities as a result of being far from the city where urbanity exists.

The large number of Igbo people outside Igboland also helped to accentuate the belief that they are running away from their rural communities which lack modern infrastructure to places where life is better. In every state of Nigeria, after the indigenous or ethnic population, the Igbo people are usually the second largest population. Outside Nigeria, the Igbo people also have large populations in many countries of the world. This has led to the creation of a saying that is used as a joke in Nigeria: “If you get to any part of the world and don’t find Igbo people there, please run away from that place.”

Some non-Igbo who had travelled to Igboland had asked me two interesting questions: Why do you people call your towns and cities ‘village’? Why do your people love to leave your beautiful and big towns and cities to relocate to other places, including places not as developed as yours? Such people say that even in remote communities in their home state, there are Igbo people.

But I always smile and say that such is the nature of the Igbo. They simply love to fan out: that even within Igboland, many Nnewi people leave Nnewi to settle in Owerri, while many Owerri people leave it to settle in Nnewi. Some people even relocate to smaller or less developed communities. Some even relocate to worn-torn countries. There is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or sThere is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or small.mall.

Without these factors, especially the use of ‘village’ by Igbo people to describe their hometowns and ancestral homes, there would have been no need to start a campaign of showcasing their homes to other Nigerians. But despite that display, it will still take a long time to erase that image of ‘village’ from the minds of most Nigerians. The first reason is that not everybody is on social media. The second is that not everybody who is on social media saw those displays. The third reason is that mental pictures and narratives are not easily wiped off or replaced.

Because of this wrong nomenclature, many years ago I made a decision never to say “my village,” given the massive developments that have taken place in Nnewi in the past 40 years. I began to use the terms “my hometown” or “my home city.” Initially, it was not easy to say. But eventually, it stuck. Today, I don’t have any problem using the term “hometown” or “home city.”

Some people have argued that the use of ‘village’ gives the nostalgic feeling of leaving the noise and aloof lifestyle of the city for the idyllic and convivial ambience of ‘home.’ They argue that using the term ‘hometown’ does not create that mental distinction. However, there is a price for every action. If you call your hometown ‘village’ while other ethnic groups call theirs hometown or city, naturally yours will be viewed as rural, backward, and poor. You will have the taxing duty of occasionally proving that it is not so. And like Nigerians say in pidgin English: You go explain tire; no evidence! (You will explain and explain, but all will be in vain.)

– X: @BrandAzuka

Azuka Onwuka

Source: https://punchng.com/how-village-has-harmed-the-igbo-people/

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by sonature1: 1:27pm On Jan 09
I remember travelling from Lagos to Enugu to stay for a while and some friends in Lagos were asking me what I brought back from my village. I was like, "What the fvck?!"

Looking at the article, does it mean that other Nigerians don't have the term village in their lexicon? I strongly believe that this man wrote this article from the perspective of Yorubas who live in the Lagos but they don't visit their states of origin.

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by plaetton: 1:33pm On Jan 09
sonature1:
During the Yuletide, the hashtag ‘Igbo village mansions’ trended on social media. The hashtag, which started on Tiktok, was a reaction to a denigrating remark someone made about the Igbo people living in huts in rural communities.

Those travelling to Igboland for Christmas and New Year began to post photos and videos of their houses and other buildings in their communities, while urging people from other parts of the country to also show their own indigenous communities. It quickly spread to X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.

To some, it was a show-off; to others, it was some sort of enlightenment for many who had never travelled to Igboland and never knew that such edifices could be built even in the remotest places.

But there was a reason for that confusion. In Nigeria, the only people who call their ancestral communities ‘village’ are the Igbo people. By calling their hometowns and cities ‘villages’ over the years, Igbo people created a picture of a people who live in thatched huts built with mud. Conversely, other parts of Nigeria use terms like ‘town’ and ‘city’ to describe their own ancestral communities.

For example, growing up I had relatives who lived in places like Zonkwa, Funtua, Mubi, Owo, Ikare, Auchi, Gboko, etc. While talking about their place of residence, they would use words like “town” or “city”, but when talking about home, they would use “village.” Friends from other Igbo towns and cities had the same experience. Imagine the absurdity of hearing indigenes of cities like Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, or Enugu, who live outside Igboland, saying: “I am travelling to my village.”

Unconsciously, the Igbo people internalised ‘village’ to mean “ancestral home” as opposed to “place of residence.” Village is interpreted to be where family members live, where childhood friends can be met, where childhood memories exist, and where the traditions of the people hold sway.

But because of the disconnect between this meaning of ‘village’ and the dictionary meaning, many non-Igbo mistake that expression for something else.

How does the dictionary define ‘village’? Dictionary.com defines a village as “a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.”

Using a hut for illustration, National Geographic explains ‘village’ to children between Grade 5 and Grade 8 or Primary 5 and JS2 this way: “A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a ‘hamlet’ but smaller than a ‘town.’ Some geographers specifically define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants.”

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary says that “a village consists of a group of houses, together with other buildings such as a church or school, in a country area.” Note that “country area” means rural area. Similarly, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines it as “a very small town in the countryside.”

Two features run through all the definitions. The first is that a village is “small.” The second is that it is in a rural area. Being rural connotes lacking in modernity and facilities as a result of being far from the city where urbanity exists.

The large number of Igbo people outside Igboland also helped to accentuate the belief that they are running away from their rural communities which lack modern infrastructure to places where life is better. In every state of Nigeria, after the indigenous or ethnic population, the Igbo people are usually the second largest population. Outside Nigeria, the Igbo people also have large populations in many countries of the world. This has led to the creation of a saying that is used as a joke in Nigeria: “If you get to any part of the world and don’t find Igbo people there, please run away from that place.”

Some non-Igbo who had travelled to Igboland had asked me two interesting questions: Why do you people call your towns and cities ‘village’? Why do your people love to leave your beautiful and big towns and cities to relocate to other places, including places not as developed as yours? Such people say that even in remote communities in their home state, there are Igbo people.

But I always smile and say that such is the nature of the Igbo. They simply love to fan out: that even within Igboland, many Nnewi people leave Nnewi to settle in Owerri, while many Owerri people leave it to settle in Nnewi. Some people even relocate to smaller or less developed communities. Some even relocate to worn-torn countries. There is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or sThere is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or small.mall.

Without these factors, especially the use of ‘village’ by Igbo people to describe their hometowns and ancestral homes, there would have been no need to start a campaign of showcasing their homes to other Nigerians. But despite that display, it will still take a long time to erase that image of ‘village’ from the minds of most Nigerians. The first reason is that not everybody is on social media. The second is that not everybody who is on social media saw those displays. The third reason is that mental pictures and narratives are not easily wiped off or replaced.

Because of this wrong nomenclature, many years ago I made a decision never to say “my village,” given the massive developments that have taken place in Nnewi in the past 40 years. I began to use the terms “my hometown” or “my home city.” Initially, it was not easy to say. But eventually, it stuck. Today, I don’t have any problem using the term “hometown” or “home city.”

Some people have argued that the use of ‘village’ gives the nostalgic feeling of leaving the noise and aloof lifestyle of the city for the idyllic and convivial ambience of ‘home.’ They argue that using the term ‘hometown’ does not create that mental distinction. However, there is a price for every action. If you call your hometown ‘village’ while other ethnic groups call theirs hometown or city, naturally yours will be viewed as rural, backward, and poor. You will have the taxing duty of occasionally proving that it is not so. And like Nigerians say in pidgin English: You go explain tire; no evidence! (You will explain and explain, but all will be in vain.)

– X: @BrandAzuka

Azuka Onwuka

Source: https://punchng.com/how-village-has-harmed-the-igbo-people/
Rubbish.
There is nothing denigrating about the word ' village ' to describe one's ancestral home.
We are very very proud of the fact that our ancestral villages are the places we call our true homes .

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by festacman(m): 1:40pm On Jan 09
Azuka Onwuka is a confused Igbo man.

The fact is that in Igboland, particularly in Anambra State where I come from, every town has a number villages that combine to form the town. From Awka, Abagana, Enugwu-Ukwu, Agulu, Ogidi, Nnewi, Ihiala, Uga, Aguleri, Onitsha, etc, it is the same pattern. Each of these towns have villages and Google is there to help out. These towns make up the LGAs.

Therefore, If I travel home for Christmas, burial, etc. I travel to my village in my hometown where I have my ancestral home and where I have my Umunna.

So, I don't understand what Azuka Onwuka is saying in this write-up.

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Maazieze(m): 1:42pm On Jan 09
TLDR semantic ramblings from a slowpoke
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Ibadanpikin: 1:43pm On Jan 09
My village umunze has more mansions and fine houses than 80% of towns in south west and the north.

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by JagabanBorgu: 1:47pm On Jan 09
D lgb0s started what they cañ't finish and now they making posts upon posts to explain.
If u all had held ur peace after the election without tribaIizing the outcome, we wouldn't have gotten here.
U all did this after Buhari won election, every Northerner was póór and hûñgry, every musIim was bàd, every Hausa-Fulani was an iIIitràtè, they kept quiet, now the Yorubàs are giving u equaI measures.
Posts started springing up.

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by kettykin: 2:00pm On Jan 09
Even Chinese call their village village, but the average Chinese village is far well of than most Nigeria towns, what igbos need to di now is to build the classic igbo city different from Aba, onitsha, owerri, enugu, Awka and Abaliliki
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by KwuoteYourFada: 2:27pm On Jan 09
JagabanBorgu:
D lgb0s started what they cañ't finish and now they making posts upon posts to explain.
If u all had held ur peace after the election without tribaIizing the outcome, we wouldn't have gotten here.
U all did this after Buhari won election, every Northerner was póór and hûñgry, every musIim was bàd, every Hausa-Fulani was an iIIitràtè, they kept quiet, now the Yorubàs are giving u equaI measures
Posts started springing up.

Stealing

Bags of rice

Stealing Christmas packages

Stealing from fallen 7 up truck?

Or Ebi npa wa ooo


Which Equal measure are you talking about?

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Donaldoni: 2:31pm On Jan 09
They are villages for real smiley

Igbos live in dispersed semi-autonomous settlements even within their cities embarassed

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Greenback: 2:32pm On Jan 09
JagabanBorgu:
D lgb0s started what they cañ't finish and now they making posts upon posts to explain.
If u all had held ur peace after the election without tribaIizing the outcome, we wouldn't have gotten here.
U all did this after Buhari won election, every Northerner was póór and hûñgry, every musIim was bàd, every Hausa-Fulani was an iIIitràtè, they kept quiet, now the Yorubàs are giving u equaI measures.
Posts started springing up.
Equal measures as in the only achievement of your lives, right?

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Raskimonojendor: 2:35pm On Jan 09
Ibadanpikin:
My village umunze has more mansions and fine houses than 80% of towns in south west and the north.
What the hell is wrong with you princeoflagos aka timiofede aka Omofiditi aka Ibadanpikin. Hope everything is okay. A thread meant to be educative, you would rather leave the substance of the thread and insult other tribes and regions. Clap for yourself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXxaS62v5-o?si=FPksjkQQ_bymlaWZ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx_lPBaMVu4?si=0lb4uanqkXbAmxHd


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVAq9uSwXU?si=6hiklms61R53H9xw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IySejQRZ8dk?si=B91fRMVx2YtNDV5p


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyekTjf9rkI?si=p_ubuF5bI0ntqRWj

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by festacman(m): 2:37pm On Jan 09
Ibadanpikin:
My village umunze has more mansions and fine houses than 80% of towns in south west and the north.

You are part of the confusion. Your village is not Umunze. Umunze is your hometown with the following seven villages:

Nsogwu, Ugwunano, Lomu, Ubaha, Ururo, Ozara and Amuda

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umunze

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by franchasofficia: 2:38pm On Jan 09
sonature1:
During the Yuletide, the hashtag ‘Igbo village mansions’ trended on social media. The hashtag, which started on Tiktok, was a reaction to a denigrating remark someone made about the Igbo people living in huts in rural communities.

Those travelling to Igboland for Christmas and New Year began to post photos and videos of their houses and other buildings in their communities, while urging people from other parts of the country to also show their own indigenous communities. It quickly spread to X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.

To some, it was a show-off; to others, it was some sort of enlightenment for many who had never travelled to Igboland and never knew that such edifices could be built even in the remotest places.

But there was a reason for that confusion. In Nigeria, the only people who call their ancestral communities ‘village’ are the Igbo people. By calling their hometowns and cities ‘villages’ over the years, Igbo people created a picture of a people who live in thatched huts built with mud. Conversely, other parts of Nigeria use terms like ‘town’ and ‘city’ to describe their own ancestral communities.

For example, growing up I had relatives who lived in places like Zonkwa, Funtua, Mubi, Owo, Ikare, Auchi, Gboko, etc. While talking about their place of residence, they would use words like “town” or “city”, but when talking about home, they would use “village.” Friends from other Igbo towns and cities had the same experience. Imagine the absurdity of hearing indigenes of cities like Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, or Enugu, who live outside Igboland, saying: “I am travelling to my village.”

Unconsciously, the Igbo people internalised ‘village’ to mean “ancestral home” as opposed to “place of residence.” Village is interpreted to be where family members live, where childhood friends can be met, where childhood memories exist, and where the traditions of the people hold sway.

But because of the disconnect between this meaning of ‘village’ and the dictionary meaning, many non-Igbo mistake that expression for something else.

How does the dictionary define ‘village’? Dictionary.com defines a village as “a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.”

Using a hut for illustration, National Geographic explains ‘village’ to children between Grade 5 and Grade 8 or Primary 5 and JS2 this way: “A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a ‘hamlet’ but smaller than a ‘town.’ Some geographers specifically define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants.”

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary says that “a village consists of a group of houses, together with other buildings such as a church or school, in a country area.” Note that “country area” means rural area. Similarly, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines it as “a very small town in the countryside.”

Two features run through all the definitions. The first is that a village is “small.” The second is that it is in a rural area. Being rural connotes lacking in modernity and facilities as a result of being far from the city where urbanity exists.

The large number of Igbo people outside Igboland also helped to accentuate the belief that they are running away from their rural communities which lack modern infrastructure to places where life is better. In every state of Nigeria, after the indigenous or ethnic population, the Igbo people are usually the second largest population. Outside Nigeria, the Igbo people also have large populations in many countries of the world. This has led to the creation of a saying that is used as a joke in Nigeria: “If you get to any part of the world and don’t find Igbo people there, please run away from that place.”

Some non-Igbo who had travelled to Igboland had asked me two interesting questions: Why do you people call your towns and cities ‘village’? Why do your people love to leave your beautiful and big towns and cities to relocate to other places, including places not as developed as yours? Such people say that even in remote communities in their home state, there are Igbo people.

But I always smile and say that such is the nature of the Igbo. They simply love to fan out: that even within Igboland, many Nnewi people leave Nnewi to settle in Owerri, while many Owerri people leave it to settle in Nnewi. Some people even relocate to smaller or less developed communities. Some even relocate to worn-torn countries. There is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or sThere is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or small.mall.

Without these factors, especially the use of ‘village’ by Igbo people to describe their hometowns and ancestral homes, there would have been no need to start a campaign of showcasing their homes to other Nigerians. But despite that display, it will still take a long time to erase that image of ‘village’ from the minds of most Nigerians. The first reason is that not everybody is on social media. The second is that not everybody who is on social media saw those displays. The third reason is that mental pictures and narratives are not easily wiped off or replaced.

Because of this wrong nomenclature, many years ago I made a decision never to say “my village,” given the massive developments that have taken place in Nnewi in the past 40 years. I began to use the terms “my hometown” or “my home city.” Initially, it was not easy to say. But eventually, it stuck. Today, I don’t have any problem using the term “hometown” or “home city.”

Some people have argued that the use of ‘village’ gives the nostalgic feeling of leaving the noise and aloof lifestyle of the city for the idyllic and convivial ambience of ‘home.’ They argue that using the term ‘hometown’ does not create that mental distinction. However, there is a price for every action. If you call your hometown ‘village’ while other ethnic groups call theirs hometown or city, naturally yours will be viewed as rural, backward, and poor. You will have the taxing duty of occasionally proving that it is not so. And like Nigerians say in pidgin English: You go explain tire; no evidence! (You will explain and explain, but all will be in vain.)

– X: @BrandAzuka

Azuka Onwuka

Source: https://punchng.com/how-village-has-harmed-the-igbo-people/
Igbo ndi oma, the best of the best.


It was a privilege for me to be born Igbo and I am forever grateful to God cool

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Forumites: 2:41pm On Jan 09
No matter where you come from you must be asked “which village you come from”? It describes your ancestral heritage. Not just igbos but an African thing.

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Nigerfine3: 2:41pm On Jan 09
sonature1:
I remember travelling from Lagos to Enugu to stay for a while and some friends in Lagos were asking me what I brought back from my village. I was like, "What the fvck?!"

Looking at the article, does it mean that other Nigerians don't have the term village in their lexicon? I strongly believe that this man wrote this article from the perspective of Yorubas who live in the Lagos but they don't visit their states of origin.
I want to oppose your view on the perspective he wrote from, he is an igbo and view it that way. I left my hometown at age 11, I didn't see it as village and till date do not call it so. I grew up on the west, I saw places in igbo land and much in west too, I couldn't call my hometown village till date.
My nephew who was born in Abeokuta ,went to FUTO, he later went for Christmas in Afikpo, Ebonyi he called me, and said he was surprised to see the development of a place his mum calls village. I laughed and asked him to compare owerri and Abeokuta........ let's leave his description of both.
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by franchasofficia: 2:42pm On Jan 09
JagabanBorgu:
D lgb0s started what they cañ't finish and now they making posts upon posts to explain.
If u all had held ur peace after the election without tribaIizing the outcome, we wouldn't have gotten here.
U all did this after Buhari won election, every Northerner was póór and hûñgry, every musIim was bàd, every Hausa-Fulani was an iIIitràtè, they kept quiet, now the Yorubàs are giving u equaI measures.
Posts started springing up.
blablablabla no single sense, odiegwu cheesy



It is a privilege to be born Igbo if u no know.



You need to visit some countries and hear the amazing stories of how their women prefer Igbo men to any other.


ifugodi convoy mhen jiri bata obodo ibere ebere cheesy

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by christejames(m): 2:43pm On Jan 09
Simply put,, in Igbo village simply means city shocked
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by gidgiddy: 3:14pm On Jan 09
I can't believe someone with a brain sat down to right this nonsense just because Igbos use a different semantic than others in Nigeria

A village in no way signify backwardness or lack of development, it is just a place with less population than the normal

There are indigenous people of Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Awka, Onitsha and Abakiliki. Yet these people call those places 'my village' even though they have attained city status. All it means is that the place is their ancestral land within the Igbo nation.

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by KwuoteYourFada: 3:15pm On Jan 09
Raskimonojendor:


Ebi npa wa oo cheesy cheesy cheesy

Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Raskimonojendor: 3:26pm On Jan 09
KwuoteYourFada:


Ebi npa wa oo cheesy cheesy cheesy

😂

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by mycar: 3:34pm On Jan 09
In the villages you find iroko trees, forest and other natural vegetations . Any place without natural vegetations is no longer a village.
Me, I like nature and in the village you find them
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Ibadanpikin: 3:38pm On Jan 09
festacman:


You are part of the confusion. Your village is not Umunze. Umunze is your hometown with the following seven villages:

Nsogwu, Ugwunano, Lomu, Ubaha, Ururo, Ozara and Amuda

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umunze
You are right i am from Lomu village.
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by EmperorCaesar(m): 3:49pm On Jan 09
Nigerfine3:

I want to oppose your view on the perspective he wrote from, he is an igbo and view it that way. I left my hometown at age 11, I didn't see it as village and till date do not call it so. I grew up on the west, I saw places in igbo land and much in west too, I couldn't call my hometown village till date.
My nephew who was born in Abeokuta ,went to FUTO, he later went for Christmas in Afikpo, Ebonyi he called me, and said he was surprised to see the development of a place his mum calls village. I laughed and asked him to compare owerri and Abeokuta........ let's leave his description of both.

With this narratives now that bore a uselless comaparison between ABK and Owerri, Isnt it your cousin mum's fault that u call your village, a village(Whatever that means) or was it the Yorubas people fault that they see ABK as a city and u see your owerri as a village?

Why the unneccesary comparison

U didnt even directly attack and correct him but u just needed that comparison to feel good for nothing sake

So, u people left your bigger cities in Imo to come hustle in a village called ABK

I used to think civilized people go from rural to urban, never knew u guys prefer hustling in local settlement away from home while living your viable cities behind cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by EmperorCaesar(m): 3:55pm On Jan 09
Ibadanpikin:
My village umunze has more mansions and fine houses than 80% of towns in south west and the north.


Then u dont know what a village is

See, in Anambra here, Obieze, Abatete and co are called Villages and thats what they truly are

There are less than 5mansions here

Ukpo, Ifitedunu and co are towns will less than 10mansions

U guys just spew too many shit

How can Umunachi and Umudioka have more mansions that 80%SW cities, that means u dont even know what a village is

U are not that bright and thats fine cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Amotekun777: 4:00pm On Jan 09
Ibadanpikin:
My village umunze has more mansions and fine houses than 80% of towns in south west and the north.

Dey playyyyyy !!! grin

Yet, you and ur fellow savages run commot to Yoruba lands to survive. grin

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Ibadanpikin: 4:02pm On Jan 09
EmperorCaesar:



Then u dont know what a village is

See, in Anambra here, Obieze, Abatete and co are called Villages and thats what they truly are

There are less than 5mansions here

Ukpo, Ifitedunu and co are towns will less than 10mansions

U guys just spew too many shit

How can Umunachi and Umudioka have more mansions that 80%SW cities, that means u dont even know what a village is

U are not that bright and thats fine cheesy cheesy cheesy
In umunze their are streets with more than 7 mansions talkless of the whole umunze.My step brother who based in Lagos has two mansions,his elder brother has one,my mum two brothers also as.
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by Demigod22: 4:05pm On Jan 09
My friend is from Asokoro in Abuja, and anytime he leaves Jabi to Asokoro, he will say he is going to his village. If you Know Abuja well, you don't need me to tell you how develop Asokoro is.

The word "village" in African parlance is not associated with development or underdevelopment of a place. The word implies the ancestral home of an individual.

Even in Europe and America, they also have villages which are well planned and organized but it is still a village.

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Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by KosiGee(m): 4:25pm On Jan 09
Ibadanpikin:
My village umunze has more mansions and fine houses than 80% of towns in south west and the north.

You are from Umunze!! Obodo Ugo Foam. Abilikete
Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by KosiGee(m): 4:45pm On Jan 09
Ibadanpikin:
In umunze their are streets with more than 7 mansions talkless of the whole umunze.My step brother who based in Lagos has two mansions,his elder brother has one,my mum two brothers also as.

All of you have mansions!! You have mansion, you mum has mansion, your brother has mansion, your uncle has mansion, your gateman has mansion.

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